Transposition of Votes

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The transposition process, as required under the Canada Elections Act, determines the number of votes that each registered political party at the last general election would have obtained according to the electoral districts proclaimed in the Representation Order on August 25, 2003. This information is used to decide which political parties have the right to nominate election officers at the next general election, if it is held using the new boundaries.

NOTE: If a registered party is the result of a merger, the merged party
is attributed the votes of the candidate of the merging parties who received
the greatest number of votes. If the merging parties finished first and second
in the last election, then the merged party is deemed to have placed first and
the party that placed third at the last election will be deemed to have placed
second. This would apply in the case of the former Canadian Reform Conservative
Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, which have now become
the Conservative Party of Canada.